I went through the microscopes and telescopes as a young child. I became aware of chemistry around 9 years old when I learned how to make gunpowder. Back then you could get sodium nitrate and sulfur at the corner drug store. I began experimenting with formulae and methods of making, increasing the charcoal % and grinding under alcohol and evaporating to “plugs” I used as rocket fuel. I had some spectacular failures and still have all my digits.
We mixed a copper (ii) fluoride solution into a beaker and places a strip of aluminum into it. It started to realease energy and produce heat and that really hooked me be cause I wanted to work with other chemicals that I have yet to interact with. Also 5 words: periodic table of the elements.
From when I was about 6 all I wanted for Christmas was a microscope! I wanted to see everything! I got one when I was about 7 and I decided to look at a tiny, tiny bit of cheese, then I thought, I wonder what it looks like moldy! Lol! So I put it away for a while, but then forgot about it! 1 year later I found it again hen we moved house....and it smelled quite bad haha! But now I really love chemistry, and I'm 14 years old :)
I've been watching your videos from the first to the most current for the last week or so. Loved the short video of Neil at the end. He's certainly a man of few words :)
I was about 10 when I discovered gunpowder and that fact that I could get the primary ingredients from the local drug store (sulfur and saltpeter, sodium nitrate). The next few years were pretty entertaining.
...twas the night before Christmas, 1968; after playing model trains boredom saw the game morph into train wreck game with a older child; he was unable to satiate his hyper competitive psychosis and escalated the game with what he called a atomic bomb to "out due my logic "by cheat & win"
~within moments of cleaning up train mess, eye had to ask "what is atomic bomb", from that day forward over the next 43 years I just kept with the questions needed to answer that question if only to prevent !
This vid is a wonderful tribute to the power of good teachers on young minds. Thank you, periodicvideos, for fulfilling that role for me and so many other youtubers
I was going to be a Mechanical engineer (I am great in Math) until AP Chemistry in highschool, I have since changed my degree to a double in Petroleum and Chemical engineering.
What an excellent video! I loved hearing every story - and seeing the photos. :D My mom was (and still is) a chemist and I tried to follow in her footsteps. The math got me in the end, too, and I ultimately majored in Botany. My favorite chemistry class by far was Organic Chemistry.
Martyns explanation is perfect for me! I LOVE physics, but my maths ability isn't up to the battering it provides. I also really like biology. Ironically, chemistry was one of my least favourites at school; constantly doing titration after titration and having to write each up as if it was a new thing, even though we all knew what the standard was. But now, I own thousand upon thousands of pounds worth of chemistry gear, which is surprisingly cheaper than the other two. I do experiments daily.
in 20 years probably some on is gonna ask me the same question and my answer would be "well when i was 15 i used to watch these videos from a website called youtube by a profesor..." :D
I had a pretty hard honors biology teacher in high school, in which i failed horribly. The next teacher i had was just a regular biology teacher and he was so cut and paste that you could predict based upon the book what he'd talk about next. They really ruined chemistry for me. But in recent years, I've been re-invigorated in chemistry. My only problem is, my memory is horrible and i can't get past memorizing the elements and their stats.
sam and deborah's pictures baby pictures are so cute! i love how martyn's older pictures has the crazy hair still, its like its plumed out, and gotten more crazy since then. i love it! and neil's one is perfect, it tells me everything! XD
@thexsoar It's a qualification - typically studied between the ages of 16 and 18 - which is, so to speak, one rung down from an undergraduate ("bachelor's") degree.
It's short for "advanced level". This was in contrast to the "ordinary level" (or "O levels"), which were a set of examinations completed at around age 16 (the age at which compulsory education ends in the UK).
Mind you, the older "O level" no longer exists. It has since been replaced by the GCSE (a "General Certificate of Secondary Education") and other forms of more modern qualification.
Nevertheless, it retains its "advanced level" name, even though there is no "ordinary level" to contrast it against anymore.
In essence, the "A level" is the bridging qualification between the end of compulsory education at age 16 and going to university (typically at age 18) to begin a degree course.
@thexsoar To put it simply, American colleges and universities judge applicants using the SAT, while English, Welsh and Northern Irish (but not Scottish) universities judge applicants using A-levels. Students usually study A-Levels in three subjects, though really bright students might attempt four or even five. Instead of percentiles, A-Levels are graded from A* - E, with A* being the highest possible grade.
I was 5 years old when my dad took my to an abandoned lead/zinc mine very close to our home. There I found a piece of lead ore. I asked him, why does this rock shine. He answered me, that when I get older if I'll be interested I'll find out myself. Now I'm at the end of my study in Chemical Engineering. A moment that determined my life :)
yo estudio quimica y me ha gustado desde que tengo memoria.
mi madre es maestra y me acuerdo que cuando era chico me llevaba a sus clases y ella hacia experimetos que yo no entendia en esos momentos, pero los recordaba y todo lo que me decia ahora tiene sentido.
we should try to interpret what Neil tried to tell us.. he pulled up the hammer, and then let it fall.. that must mean something.. maybe it it was around the time of MC hammer, and it was unavoidable for him to go into physics like it's unavoidable of the hammer to get pulled by gravity and hitting the metal thing.. hmmm
Yes Dr. Kays, the fact that our table salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine was so interesting for me, that I began to learn more about chemistry, too.
Chemistry is by far my most favourite hobby and my favourtie subject at school. Yes, I can say that I love chemistry really much.
I first got interested at age 5 when my dad bought be a chemistry set. It didn't really hook me though until age 15 in high school when I really started to understand that chemistry is not only the study of matter, but all that was, is, and will be. It still boggles my mind to think that although the cup I'm drinking out of is new, the atoms that make it up are billions of years old!
Does anyone know the ice and rock salt experiment to make ice cream without a freezer? I was 6 or so and I thought the salt sucked the heat out. 11 years later in high school Chem class, I found out that salt does lowers the freezing temperature :P
For me, it would be conducting and writing up chemistry set experiments with my Dad; I think every child should have a chemistry set at some point : )
My first experience with chemistry was at 18 when I discovered the wonders of dimethyltriptamine and decided to make some in my kitchen, it was a wonderful experience indeed
First time was when my older brother and sister had shown me how to make a Sputnik drink (soda, sugar and cream) though I know now that's more to do with the physics of these ingredients, it was mixing different liquids to get a new drinkable liquid. Certainly, this has contributed to my educational course (math, physics, chemistry etc).
i 've always been into math, but because my mum is a high school chemestry teacher i got really into chemestry, i think i like it more than her :P and it lead to physics which is what i'm studying now
I would love to see a Video with Neil like the one on Sixty Symbols about the Tetris Addict! The quiet people are always most interesting once they tell something about themselves!
Unfortunately, I've had a string of bad teachers, and physics teacher who was great who hated chemistry and biased me further against it. To me chemistry was always clear solutions and white powders, with the rare bangs that was never worth it.
Eventually I had to teach it when doing student teaching and then when I got my first job and I fell in love with it. I tell my students it's because I get to do all the dangerous/cool stuff I used to just have to watch. It is now my favorite to teach.
i hate to say it, but the Fukushima thing is a direct result of the century old super heat chucking policy of producing power. Basically one can use power or energy well if we capture the heat energy and use it. I don't know if any of you chemists notice, but centralization power production is "super heat chucking". The way to get completely around of centralized super heat chucking is to generate power near point of use and save the heat to use. It is not super heat chucking compliant.
Neil's story, of course, is morse code for "As a child I was trapped in an abandoned mine shaft. After much experimentation, I used various ores and crystals to create agents corrosive enough to dissolve a hole to the surface."
i got this degree in physical chemistry, but my childhood environment was not exaclty helpful in getting started i leared that the powerthermodynmics things changed when the steam engine was banned for road vehicles. This was a policy of genius since after that it was impossible to do a side by sid comparison or any research or development on the matter. We might believe there is some system in place protect us from systems of super heat chucking, but it's the authorities that set it in place
the first time i got really interested in chemistry was at 13 when i had an amazing chemistry teacher! He retired the next year which wasn't so great!
The first time I was introduced to chemistry was when I was like 7 or 8, my dad used to have a chemistry set shoved up on top of a wardrobe.
I thought it was a cool new thing but sadly the age required was 10, and every birthday that passed I grew more and more excited on reaching 10. I lost interest in that set, but when I discovered the internet and youtube. I started to become fascinated by these reactions, it wasnt about a few years later where I began to study it and truly love it more
I hate to get carried away with this stuff, but the science and technology of thermodynamics has been bought out and the rest of us have been deprived. Don't believe it? Why is all power production centralized and heat chucking? Why did the steam engine vanish so suddenly and so completely and no one says why? It appear as if we have a centrally installed super heat chucking policy in place and no one can say anything about it or do anything about it.. We might not even need big energy.
@hypnofan35: Steam energy isn't "big" energy? What exactly is it you are proposing - a steam engine in every garage? Get up early in the morning to stoke the boilers?
@puncheex For some reason i think about this stuff, i think i grew up thinking about it. There is a methodology that throws away heat. It's rare to see an operation where heat is saved. It should be easy enough to update these things . I could see the entire scene shifting in a year or two. It sounds good for nature and bad for big business. What we have is monopoly. It's like dracula for civilization. It sounds strange; "maximized good usage" What the heck Let's get crazy.
@hypnofan35: First, I challenge your claim that steam energy is inherently more efficient than, say, an equivalent powered IC engine. Remember that the SE includes the boilers and their heat source. Secondly, how do you that creating electrical power centrally, say, is less efficient than doing it in some distributed fashion? Seems to me that breaking it down and spreading it out must make it less efficient. What do you see shifting to?
@puncheex The difference in the two engines is that IC creates a huge amount of heat in a closed space and it doesn't get spent as power, it merely excapes to the outside. It is designed to do that. That is pretty much the whole thing. i've never seen a working steam engine.. Somehow this was put into place in a time of generally missing knowledge. As far as adding heat to the expandible media of water; that can be done very efficiently. Catching the leftover heat should be simplistic.
@hypnofan35 If you try to buy, build or own a steam or pneumatic engine, it will be taken away from you and you could easily lose your life as well. This is the single biggest example of force and enforced bad usage forced bamboozlement in the history of the planet. Everyone who uses fuel is officially and forcefully bamboozled. If you want to use fire you must pay the government for their methodology which turns out to be abysmally poor. i think it was set in place by "innerworlders".
@puncheex A dedicated drive gas engine does not have to run especially hot. We don't know this but one could be heat scrubbing engine that could back up and run on the heat cast off by an internal combustion engine. Another thing that is very siimplistic is generating one's own electric and using the residual heat for heating one home. That would be a 2fer using a fraction of the fuel other wise used as we do now. The heat is not waste. The heat is cast off as waste..
@puncheex The centralizing or monopolistic nature of the energy industry is not by accident. It came about before my time, but if monopolies tend to try to control as much as they can. In this case the government is in league with the "over burning scam" It's a liitle hard to understand but it is; extreme waste in an attempt to contol the use of fire. The question might be: Where are these heat capture devices and methods? Ans; These things are legally or secretly banned from earth
When I was 13 or so I watched the anime Full Metal Alchemist. The forays of Alphonse and Edward along with their use of Alchemy got me interested in Chemistry.
Chmistry is to help with the basic nature of things, but is often a culprit in the business aspect of propagating bad usage. The steam engine seems to be a theoretically very high efficiency engine but we don't use it. We never ever capture heat for later use. We must be operating on the super heat chucking principal.. Basically this means that the science and tech of power thermodyanics has been bought out so super heat chucking can be centrally installed as the only power tech.
@hypnofan35: Basically, economics at the current level doesn't require high efficiencies. Lower ones will do, particularly when they are available at the turn of a key, And you're right, that's a business aspect. Business rules, at least for the foreseeable future.
Ha ha! Fun video, great to see the chemists as children. You know, for me, I remember the first time I played Super Mario Bros, the first one. It was on a regular Nintendo with my much older cousins. I died by hitting the first Goomba. But it was my first video game, and for some reason that captivated me. A bit of context, now I write software and hack my Android phone!
As an American, can you explain what the different schooling terms mean? Secondary school, GCSCs(I think thats what he said) etc. Thanks! Another Great Video BTW.
@Linuxpunk81 Secondary school is 11-16, the last compulsory stage of English education. GCSEs are the public exams taken at the end of this period. A-levels are optional post-GCSE exams which are much more in depth. For example, the median school person may take 10 or 11 GCSEs but then 3 or 4 A-Levels. I hope that helps.
@Linuxpunk81 Secondry School i belive is your High School and GCSE'S are a compulory set of exams in all differnt subjects you have to do at the end of your Secondry /High school schooling hope that helps
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TheCaphits 1 week ago
I went through the microscopes and telescopes as a young child. I became aware of chemistry around 9 years old when I learned how to make gunpowder. Back then you could get sodium nitrate and sulfur at the corner drug store. I began experimenting with formulae and methods of making, increasing the charcoal % and grinding under alcohol and evaporating to “plugs” I used as rocket fuel. I had some spectacular failures and still have all my digits.
5000loto 2 weeks ago in playlist Viewer Questions
On your site- I love that baby picture of Neil!
ScienceHideout 1 month ago in playlist Viewer Questions
We mixed a copper (ii) fluoride solution into a beaker and places a strip of aluminum into it. It started to realease energy and produce heat and that really hooked me be cause I wanted to work with other chemicals that I have yet to interact with. Also 5 words: periodic table of the elements.
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i really don't remember. this is really nice video.
dayspeace 3 months ago
From when I was about 6 all I wanted for Christmas was a microscope! I wanted to see everything! I got one when I was about 7 and I decided to look at a tiny, tiny bit of cheese, then I thought, I wonder what it looks like moldy! Lol! So I put it away for a while, but then forgot about it! 1 year later I found it again hen we moved house....and it smelled quite bad haha! But now I really love chemistry, and I'm 14 years old :)
iNinja85 3 months ago
I've been watching your videos from the first to the most current for the last week or so. Loved the short video of Neil at the end. He's certainly a man of few words :)
mraiford 3 months ago in playlist More videos from periodicvideos
lmao even back then the afro was coming along nicely
williefleete 7 months ago
I was about 10 when I discovered gunpowder and that fact that I could get the primary ingredients from the local drug store (sulfur and saltpeter, sodium nitrate). The next few years were pretty entertaining.
5000loto 7 months ago
Neil was actually showing a physics-experiment. It's how sound fortplants in water. Thus making longitudinal and transverse waves visible.
linjedomarn99 7 months ago
@linjedomarn99 That was from an experiment involving an alkali metal. Potassium I think.
Aviatorsmith 5 months ago
prof Poliakoff is the best!!
r022218 8 months ago
1:18 is the best part :D
olympicfan2 8 months ago
"Chemistry was Far for interesting than the girl."
Best Quote Ever.
MrTechGuy1995 8 months ago 16
...twas the night before Christmas, 1968; after playing model trains boredom saw the game morph into train wreck game with a older child; he was unable to satiate his hyper competitive psychosis and escalated the game with what he called a atomic bomb to "out due my logic "by cheat & win"
~within moments of cleaning up train mess, eye had to ask "what is atomic bomb", from that day forward over the next 43 years I just kept with the questions needed to answer that question if only to prevent !
docatomics 8 months ago
This vid is a wonderful tribute to the power of good teachers on young minds. Thank you, periodicvideos, for fulfilling that role for me and so many other youtubers
altosax1st 8 months ago
WE WANT NEIL WE WANT NEIL
h00steen 8 months ago 3
Do you dislike Neil? Please, let him talk!
mvszao 8 months ago
@mvszao he talks here /watch?v=zCARhVfeX5U
MasterzInGrime 7 months ago
this is by far the best video. thank you all!!!
videoloopproject 8 months ago
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Those chemistry girls are realy ugly
ballshit123 8 months ago
omg i love the picture of Neil ( on the site ), it's absolutely genius, why is it not in the video ??
helmus2000 8 months ago
omg i love the picture of Neil, it's absolutely genius, why is it not in the video ??
helmus2000 8 months ago
Neil was always there and will be always there...
eracless 8 months ago
neil is the stig of periodic videos
barashah 8 months ago 6
Neil has never been a child... Chemistry is just...
Minifig666 8 months ago
I was going to be a Mechanical engineer (I am great in Math) until AP Chemistry in highschool, I have since changed my degree to a double in Petroleum and Chemical engineering.
Glassjaw003 8 months ago
@Glassjaw003 woohoo chem eng! :)
iTurnedBlue 8 months ago
I am more physicist than chemist, but when I was young (I am 21 now), there were science shows on TV (the French TV, since I live in France)…
Today there aren't any more (and people are getting more and more stupid :-()…
But now there is youtube and Brady, with his videos, thanks !
DeFliegendeHollander 8 months ago
Perhaps Neil was never young, but came with the building?
thequeenofspades 8 months ago 7
@thequeenofspades LOL
AVAtistar 8 months ago
Neil's history is a mystery...
Defonthana 8 months ago 5
1:22 "The chemistry was more interesting than the girl." Hahaha, too right!
Dracopol 8 months ago 4
I think getting into chemistry these days is a bit harder seeing that everything is harder to find and possibly more expensive (to a 13 year old)
babajan97 8 months ago
Delightful and great video, brings up so many memories!!!!
andycapo123 8 months ago
It seems Neil is the Teller (of Penn & Teller) or Silent J of Nottingham.
joel4692 8 months ago
What an excellent video! I loved hearing every story - and seeing the photos. :D My mom was (and still is) a chemist and I tried to follow in her footsteps. The math got me in the end, too, and I ultimately majored in Botany. My favorite chemistry class by far was Organic Chemistry.
WhiteTiger333 8 months ago
Martyns explanation is perfect for me! I LOVE physics, but my maths ability isn't up to the battering it provides. I also really like biology. Ironically, chemistry was one of my least favourites at school; constantly doing titration after titration and having to write each up as if it was a new thing, even though we all knew what the standard was. But now, I own thousand upon thousands of pounds worth of chemistry gear, which is surprisingly cheaper than the other two. I do experiments daily.
lexichronicle2 8 months ago
Wonderful Video! Great to hear such delightful, personal stories.
birddog2017 8 months ago
This is why summer programs are so important for kids.
oisiaa 8 months ago
Neil is the Stig, that's why his past is top secret
slkong 8 months ago
in 20 years probably some on is gonna ask me the same question and my answer would be "well when i was 15 i used to watch these videos from a website called youtube by a profesor..." :D
THEGAMINGRULER 8 months ago 101
:3
Eumolpo89 8 months ago
I suppose my own introduction to science came because I was just naturally good at it! Now I'm hoping to do it in college next year!
MCRDOTCOM 8 months ago
I love The Professor's book! It looks so beautiful!
And Pirate Debbie was just adorable. :D
Ceridwen811 8 months ago
I had a pretty hard honors biology teacher in high school, in which i failed horribly. The next teacher i had was just a regular biology teacher and he was so cut and paste that you could predict based upon the book what he'd talk about next. They really ruined chemistry for me. But in recent years, I've been re-invigorated in chemistry. My only problem is, my memory is horrible and i can't get past memorizing the elements and their stats.
Dozzer 8 months ago
Clearly, this videos proves Neil had no infancy and, therefore, is a robot.
slpk 8 months ago
sam and deborah's pictures baby pictures are so cute! i love how martyn's older pictures has the crazy hair still, its like its plumed out, and gotten more crazy since then. i love it! and neil's one is perfect, it tells me everything! XD
DJBigz1988 8 months ago
Neil is like GMan from Half-Life series.
FrozenHaxor2 8 months ago
steve's hair look nice!
MrDannyArcher 8 months ago
I bet Neil had to clean/tidy up all the toys for his siblings when they were done playing.
Lavabug 8 months ago 4
the video you guys did on dehydrating sugar with sulphuric acid blew me away... I had to do it so I did it for my chemistry ap project.
wereluva 8 months ago
Extra pics, including another one of Neil, are on the periodicvideos blog... Link in the video description.
periodicvideos 8 months ago 13
Neil is my hero!
MadPuppets1 8 months ago
I actually laughed out loud at Neil's story; after the seriousness of the rest of the video that was just hilarious! Thank you for a great video!
pagani8 8 months ago
all of this euro school talk doesn't mean anything. It's hard to get an idea of when you actually got interested.
TakronRust 8 months ago
Neil rocks :D
paweloyama 8 months ago 6
That was just great, and thanks for remembering Neil.
Barnekkid 8 months ago 3
Pardon my American ignorance... what in an "A level" ?
thexsoar 8 months ago
@thexsoar It's a qualification - typically studied between the ages of 16 and 18 - which is, so to speak, one rung down from an undergraduate ("bachelor's") degree.
It's short for "advanced level". This was in contrast to the "ordinary level" (or "O levels"), which were a set of examinations completed at around age 16 (the age at which compulsory education ends in the UK).
KlaxonCow 8 months ago
Mind you, the older "O level" no longer exists. It has since been replaced by the GCSE (a "General Certificate of Secondary Education") and other forms of more modern qualification.
Nevertheless, it retains its "advanced level" name, even though there is no "ordinary level" to contrast it against anymore.
In essence, the "A level" is the bridging qualification between the end of compulsory education at age 16 and going to university (typically at age 18) to begin a degree course.
KlaxonCow 8 months ago
@thexsoar To put it simply, American colleges and universities judge applicants using the SAT, while English, Welsh and Northern Irish (but not Scottish) universities judge applicants using A-levels. Students usually study A-Levels in three subjects, though really bright students might attempt four or even five. Instead of percentiles, A-Levels are graded from A* - E, with A* being the highest possible grade.
cuntylishus 8 months ago
@2:39 Aww look @ the dimples on Dr Kays.
Ormaaj 8 months ago
I'd love to see an interview with Neil.
ericfam01 8 months ago 68
@ericfam01 Neil is chemistry's Chuck Norris
un2mensch 7 months ago 2
@un2mensch agreed
ericfam01 7 months ago
@ericfam01
It'd probably be just three to five minutes of silence.
NIQNick 1 month ago
I was 5 years old when my dad took my to an abandoned lead/zinc mine very close to our home. There I found a piece of lead ore. I asked him, why does this rock shine. He answered me, that when I get older if I'll be interested I'll find out myself. Now I'm at the end of my study in Chemical Engineering. A moment that determined my life :)
Kemikalija88 8 months ago 3
Neil! lol
hoxradio 8 months ago 2
Yay Neil! Aaa!
Ormaaj 8 months ago 2
The retrospect was an awesome idea, thanks!
stirlingfromla 8 months ago
I'm sorry but Debbie wins the WhoWasTheCutestKid trophy here. <3
LukasS 8 months ago
ive never heard neil talk..
asseeninYOURDREAMS 8 months ago
@asseeninYOURDREAMS
I bet he is this éminence grise in periodic videos team who pulls all the strings but no one notices, luv the guy
paweloyama 8 months ago
@periodicvideos what about the guy who is always cleaning up
jaelkoury 8 months ago
The guy beside the professor is Ronald Reagan xD
SkorpiusShow 8 months ago
You can blame my interest in chemistry on Don Herbert, better known as "Mr. Wizard"!
RIP, Mr. Wizard. No telling how many scientists you inspired...
Pygar2 8 months ago
Dr. Poliakoff is just fun to listen to :) I don't know what it is, but his mannerisms and stories just intrigue me.
Also, he looks like a stereotypical chemist so his profession fits!
matics19 8 months ago
LOOL. Niel. <3 him
colinstu 8 months ago
so funny/cute to see everyone as a kid
colinstu 8 months ago
Man Deborah is hot.
BobStinkfulla 8 months ago 7
i say this is pretense to show cute children's pictures
TehConqueror 8 months ago
I became interested when I saw a periodic table in a big book my mom bought for me.
Breadbug240 8 months ago
I can indeed confirm that Neil is The Stig of the department, even I am scared of speaking to him, and I speak to Martyn on a virtually daily basis!
MyMadChemist 8 months ago 4
My interest in chemistry started with periodicvideos!
culwin 8 months ago 2
wow how do you guys remember how you got started? I hardly remember what i had for lunch. Guess my bucket is small and already full :D
endospores 8 months ago
And the chemistry was more interesting than the girl.
vusiliyK 8 months ago
you should do a video of Neil, he's the men!
tr3intaydos 8 months ago
Awesome vid! OMG i'm going to fly to UK and get a voice out of Neil LOL
dreasim 8 months ago
Dr Deborah Kays (ca 2:30) probably got obsessed with Boron back then around the time she read the junior encyclopedia :P
Loved the end with Neil, he's the mysterious guy mostly behind the scenes that makes the wheels go around.
gulllars 8 months ago
Awesome vid!
dreasim 8 months ago
lmfao fuckin neil
TheNewTwinkieLord 8 months ago
Haha oh Neil :p
crusiatusblack 8 months ago
i love your videos
:D
joe8379 8 months ago
yo estudio quimica y me ha gustado desde que tengo memoria.
mi madre es maestra y me acuerdo que cuando era chico me llevaba a sus clases y ella hacia experimetos que yo no entendia en esos momentos, pero los recordaba y todo lo que me decia ahora tiene sentido.
joe8379 8 months ago
4:43...SAME EARS!!!!!
yaelypower 8 months ago
Neil was born in a test tube at the University of Nottingham. since then he has been a subject in chemistry.
cr0ss0ut 8 months ago 4
awwww baby pictures :-) how cute :D
skilllol101 8 months ago
LOL!! At some of the photos... Martyn had wild hair even back then.... nothing has changed then....
robdotcom71 8 months ago 2
Sweet the prof always had awesome hair!
TankadinFTW1 8 months ago 2
Neil is like the Harpo Marx of chemistry. :)
Zed1967 8 months ago 7
deborah....cutest. baby. evar!
eaturfeet653 8 months ago
They all have their phd.... fuuuuuuuuuuu nice
Xelbiuj 8 months ago
Neil had the best interview by far...
cabrita309 8 months ago
we should try to interpret what Neil tried to tell us.. he pulled up the hammer, and then let it fall.. that must mean something.. maybe it it was around the time of MC hammer, and it was unavoidable for him to go into physics like it's unavoidable of the hammer to get pulled by gravity and hitting the metal thing.. hmmm
DeanMalenko 8 months ago 4
@DeanMalenko Maybe he liked making loud bangs? He used the rig for the alkali metals with water reactions
geeupson 8 months ago
Yes Dr. Kays, the fact that our table salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine was so interesting for me, that I began to learn more about chemistry, too.
Chemistry is by far my most favourite hobby and my favourtie subject at school. Yes, I can say that I love chemistry really much.
MrLol333 8 months ago
4:06
I see the professor's hair hasn't changed much
migkillertwo 8 months ago
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that abandoned physics for chemistry when it became clear that serious mathematics was involved.
leptonsoup337 8 months ago 5
@leptonsoup337 me too
1KevinsFamousChili1 8 months ago 2
alright, so this is the proof that the doc has always had funny hair
jaflkbngfpnt 8 months ago
I first got interested at age 5 when my dad bought be a chemistry set. It didn't really hook me though until age 15 in high school when I really started to understand that chemistry is not only the study of matter, but all that was, is, and will be. It still boggles my mind to think that although the cup I'm drinking out of is new, the atoms that make it up are billions of years old!
japanesepoptart 8 months ago
Does anyone know the ice and rock salt experiment to make ice cream without a freezer? I was 6 or so and I thought the salt sucked the heat out. 11 years later in high school Chem class, I found out that salt does lowers the freezing temperature :P
Crimsanity 8 months ago
Is Neil the Stig of periodicvideos?
murderousrage 8 months ago 4
HAHA at 4:15 he says "Its a rather strange book.. its an American book... LOL. Love these videos. They are not only comedic but informative!
ichangedtheworld 8 months ago
For me, it would be conducting and writing up chemistry set experiments with my Dad; I think every child should have a chemistry set at some point : )
ILiveForScience 8 months ago
So... Neil got hammered one night and the rest is history? That's what I got out of that...
Epitome613 8 months ago 52
@Epitome613 Best youtube comment ever. :)
wilfred8686 8 months ago
My first experience with chemistry was at 18 when I discovered the wonders of dimethyltriptamine and decided to make some in my kitchen, it was a wonderful experience indeed
Basetrem 8 months ago
First time was when my older brother and sister had shown me how to make a Sputnik drink (soda, sugar and cream) though I know now that's more to do with the physics of these ingredients, it was mixing different liquids to get a new drinkable liquid. Certainly, this has contributed to my educational course (math, physics, chemistry etc).
FHomeBrew 8 months ago
I used to be really into chemistry but i've never been very good at written work etc so GCSEs really put me off :(
wrapupinarug 8 months ago
Of course Neil can't speak of his childhood relationship with chemistry. By age 6, he was already formulating assassin's potions for MI6.
pepsibookcat 8 months ago 17
Neil <3
FFSray 8 months ago 4
My son's answer to this question is at 10 years old when watching Periodic Table of Videos!
pepsibookcat 8 months ago 6
i 've always been into math, but because my mum is a high school chemestry teacher i got really into chemestry, i think i like it more than her :P and it lead to physics which is what i'm studying now
nybotheveg 8 months ago
Sam Tang got a perm. Here we see a younger chemist beginning the arduous, decades long quest to achieve the Professor's magnificent hair.
pepsibookcat 8 months ago 6
So stalking can lead to a career in chemistry? I never knew that. Thanks Dr Stockman!
:)
genericmember1 8 months ago 2
5:05-5:15 almost thought we are going to hear Neils voice...
Keskivertomies 8 months ago
I'm sad that Neil didn't get to give his bit. He's one of the most important people in the whole Periodic Videos series...
themaskedcrusader 8 months ago
Dr. Sam? When did she make her phd?
Fleshcut 8 months ago
@Fleshcut she's been Dr Sam longer than periodicvideos has been going!
periodicvideos 8 months ago 20
@periodicvideos (Very late) gratulations to her! xD
Fleshcut 8 months ago
@periodicvideos hahahah
tricklessmagic 8 months ago
Hahaha loved the ending.
ogrish84 8 months ago
Pete Licence looked funny in childhood
NMRus95 8 months ago
All makt åt Neil, vår befriare!
aMondia 8 months ago
I would love to see a Video with Neil like the one on Sixty Symbols about the Tetris Addict! The quiet people are always most interesting once they tell something about themselves!
Enjoyed the childhood photos, nice video!
flakemusic86 8 months ago 5
Unfortunately, I've had a string of bad teachers, and physics teacher who was great who hated chemistry and biased me further against it. To me chemistry was always clear solutions and white powders, with the rare bangs that was never worth it.
Eventually I had to teach it when doing student teaching and then when I got my first job and I fell in love with it. I tell my students it's because I get to do all the dangerous/cool stuff I used to just have to watch. It is now my favorite to teach.
mrericsully 8 months ago
Neil looks badass even when he's young!!
xuanwee1996 8 months ago
i hate to say it, but the Fukushima thing is a direct result of the century old super heat chucking policy of producing power. Basically one can use power or energy well if we capture the heat energy and use it. I don't know if any of you chemists notice, but centralization power production is "super heat chucking". The way to get completely around of centralized super heat chucking is to generate power near point of use and save the heat to use. It is not super heat chucking compliant.
hypnofan35 8 months ago
i still remember my first chemistry set.
had no idea what the hell cobalt was or what it did, but i loved the purple colour of the spirits and how cleanly they burned :)
volound 8 months ago
Neil's story, of course, is morse code for "As a child I was trapped in an abandoned mine shaft. After much experimentation, I used various ores and crystals to create agents corrosive enough to dissolve a hole to the surface."
deadeaded 8 months ago 32
i got this degree in physical chemistry, but my childhood environment was not exaclty helpful in getting started i leared that the powerthermodynmics things changed when the steam engine was banned for road vehicles. This was a policy of genius since after that it was impossible to do a side by sid comparison or any research or development on the matter. We might believe there is some system in place protect us from systems of super heat chucking, but it's the authorities that set it in place
hypnofan35 8 months ago
the first time i got really interested in chemistry was at 13 when i had an amazing chemistry teacher! He retired the next year which wasn't so great!
twilightrachel4 8 months ago
The first time I was introduced to chemistry was when I was like 7 or 8, my dad used to have a chemistry set shoved up on top of a wardrobe.
I thought it was a cool new thing but sadly the age required was 10, and every birthday that passed I grew more and more excited on reaching 10. I lost interest in that set, but when I discovered the internet and youtube. I started to become fascinated by these reactions, it wasnt about a few years later where I began to study it and truly love it more
entoris476 8 months ago
What?! Why doesn't Neil ever get any attention! :((((( poor guy
Imac717 8 months ago 4
I hate to get carried away with this stuff, but the science and technology of thermodynamics has been bought out and the rest of us have been deprived. Don't believe it? Why is all power production centralized and heat chucking? Why did the steam engine vanish so suddenly and so completely and no one says why? It appear as if we have a centrally installed super heat chucking policy in place and no one can say anything about it or do anything about it.. We might not even need big energy.
hypnofan35 8 months ago
@hypnofan35: Steam energy isn't "big" energy? What exactly is it you are proposing - a steam engine in every garage? Get up early in the morning to stoke the boilers?
puncheex 8 months ago
@puncheex For some reason i think about this stuff, i think i grew up thinking about it. There is a methodology that throws away heat. It's rare to see an operation where heat is saved. It should be easy enough to update these things . I could see the entire scene shifting in a year or two. It sounds good for nature and bad for big business. What we have is monopoly. It's like dracula for civilization. It sounds strange; "maximized good usage" What the heck Let's get crazy.
hypnofan35 8 months ago
@hypnofan35: First, I challenge your claim that steam energy is inherently more efficient than, say, an equivalent powered IC engine. Remember that the SE includes the boilers and their heat source. Secondly, how do you that creating electrical power centrally, say, is less efficient than doing it in some distributed fashion? Seems to me that breaking it down and spreading it out must make it less efficient. What do you see shifting to?
puncheex 8 months ago
@puncheex The difference in the two engines is that IC creates a huge amount of heat in a closed space and it doesn't get spent as power, it merely excapes to the outside. It is designed to do that. That is pretty much the whole thing. i've never seen a working steam engine.. Somehow this was put into place in a time of generally missing knowledge. As far as adding heat to the expandible media of water; that can be done very efficiently. Catching the leftover heat should be simplistic.
hypnofan35 8 months ago
@hypnofan35 If you try to buy, build or own a steam or pneumatic engine, it will be taken away from you and you could easily lose your life as well. This is the single biggest example of force and enforced bad usage forced bamboozlement in the history of the planet. Everyone who uses fuel is officially and forcefully bamboozled. If you want to use fire you must pay the government for their methodology which turns out to be abysmally poor. i think it was set in place by "innerworlders".
hypnofan35 8 months ago
@puncheex A dedicated drive gas engine does not have to run especially hot. We don't know this but one could be heat scrubbing engine that could back up and run on the heat cast off by an internal combustion engine. Another thing that is very siimplistic is generating one's own electric and using the residual heat for heating one home. That would be a 2fer using a fraction of the fuel other wise used as we do now. The heat is not waste. The heat is cast off as waste..
hypnofan35 8 months ago
@puncheex The centralizing or monopolistic nature of the energy industry is not by accident. It came about before my time, but if monopolies tend to try to control as much as they can. In this case the government is in league with the "over burning scam" It's a liitle hard to understand but it is; extreme waste in an attempt to contol the use of fire. The question might be: Where are these heat capture devices and methods? Ans; These things are legally or secretly banned from earth
hypnofan35 8 months ago
When I was 13 or so I watched the anime Full Metal Alchemist. The forays of Alphonse and Edward along with their use of Alchemy got me interested in Chemistry.
igext 8 months ago 2
Neil !!!!!!
exodus2142 8 months ago
Chmistry is to help with the basic nature of things, but is often a culprit in the business aspect of propagating bad usage. The steam engine seems to be a theoretically very high efficiency engine but we don't use it. We never ever capture heat for later use. We must be operating on the super heat chucking principal.. Basically this means that the science and tech of power thermodyanics has been bought out so super heat chucking can be centrally installed as the only power tech.
hypnofan35 8 months ago
@hypnofan35: Basically, economics at the current level doesn't require high efficiencies. Lower ones will do, particularly when they are available at the turn of a key, And you're right, that's a business aspect. Business rules, at least for the foreseeable future.
puncheex 8 months ago
Ha ha! Fun video, great to see the chemists as children. You know, for me, I remember the first time I played Super Mario Bros, the first one. It was on a regular Nintendo with my much older cousins. I died by hitting the first Goomba. But it was my first video game, and for some reason that captivated me. A bit of context, now I write software and hack my Android phone!
heyandy889 8 months ago
Awww Neil didn't say anything :(
omegahunter9 8 months ago 120
@omegahunter9 I think Neil said more than enough ;)
xRedster 8 months ago
@omegahunter9 because he is the stig =)
bajarwas 8 months ago
@omegahunter9
he never says anything. i think thats why he's kool. :]
master1379 8 months ago
As an American, can you explain what the different schooling terms mean? Secondary school, GCSCs(I think thats what he said) etc. Thanks! Another Great Video BTW.
Linuxpunk81 8 months ago 2
@Linuxpunk81 Secondary school is 11-16, the last compulsory stage of English education. GCSEs are the public exams taken at the end of this period. A-levels are optional post-GCSE exams which are much more in depth. For example, the median school person may take 10 or 11 GCSEs but then 3 or 4 A-Levels. I hope that helps.
TheBlackLampChannel 8 months ago
@TheBlackLampChannel thank you. Much clearer now.
Linuxpunk81 8 months ago
@Linuxpunk81 Secondry School i belive is your High School and GCSE'S are a compulory set of exams in all differnt subjects you have to do at the end of your Secondry /High school schooling hope that helps
oficiallyunofficial 8 months ago
Damn, same with me, I liked physics a lot when I was at secondary school, now at college, I prefer chemistry!
rolingpingu 8 months ago 2
Good ole Niel....
Got into sciences because of the physics of hammers destroying objects!
hakushara 8 months ago
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Oh wow Sam's brother/cousin/friend is GANGSTA
DeoMachina 8 months ago 58